SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Under California law, illegal sexual harassment or gender harassment may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Unwanted sexual advances;
• Employment benefits in exchange for sexual favors;
• Reprisals after a negative response to sexual advances;
• Physical conduct : visually leering, making sexual gestures, displaying of sexually suggestive objects or pictures, cartoons or posters;
• Verbal conduct : derogatory comments, epithets, slurs, jokes;
• exual advances or propositions;
• Verbal abuse of a sexual nature, graphic verbal commentaries about an individual’s body, sexually degrading words, suggestive or obscene letters, notes or invitations;
• Harassment based on gender, such as targeting a person for offensive or hostile treatment because she is a woman;
• Physical conduct : touching, assault, impeding or blocking movements.

Unwelcome sexual advances and other acts constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.

Please call us if you feel you have been subject to sexual harassment in the workplace.

Practicing in the following San Diego locations: Alpine, Bonita, Camp Pendleton, Cardiff by the Sea, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, Downtown San Diego, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, Imperial Beach, La Jolla, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, National City, Oceanside, Poway, Ramona, Rancho Bernardo, San Marcos, Santee, Solana Beach, Vista all areas in San Diego County. Also serving Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange County, and Los Angeles.